The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.